Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

NEW YORKER has invented musical toy
in the shape Of champagne bottle laterally
divided, and on the insiue of the section IS q
violin and strings. on which music car be dis
coursed.
FEMALE STUDENTS are pretty numerous in
Paris. Most OF them are Russians, generally
very poor, so they club together in small sets
many of them have brOI hers or husbands
with them who are students also-and put
their resources into 'mmOn fund. One
room Is used ~ dOrmitory, another as stud,
etc, and single cook does for all-phhlan-
sterism It's proposed by Fourier.
THE captain of Oh ncse bark now at San
Francisco Is in a peck Of trouble. Some Of
his crew are Chinese, and the others have
lIbolcd the vessel lor their wages. The Cap
tam hay ng no IN 'ney, be- United States
Commissioner has ordered the DArk to be sold
TO pay them. But the custom house officers
VIII not permit the Chinese sailors to land.
and the vessel Is responsible for their return
to China.
AT a recent masquerade in Portland, Ore,
number of he maskers, who had attracted
attention from their dress and antics, which
we're those of the salvation Army. formed
circle IN the mIcdle of the floor. and then
tail, athletic young man, who persOnAted
| satan, burst into the ring and tried 10 break
IL az. The army rose as a man. tnrOl tied
satan. threw him down anu wiped the floor
with him.
The New Orleans Southwestern Christian
Advocate, newspaper for negroes, says
that according to It's observation the great
mass of white persons, when talking wi h
each other. say negro" Che low bred say
niggerl. but when speaking TO negroes they
say ''colored people," which is the same as to
say; You are negroes. but l cater to your
Ioonsh pride IN saying coiored" I'VE can
stand and prefer" says the Advocate, "to be
called negroes all the time, for the simple
reason That we are negroes"
Ara recent meeting In Baltimore Of the
Freedman's I'D Society, an organization for
the education of Methodist ministers among
the negroes of the South, Secretary L. G.
Hartzell said that the colored people are in
cressing more by births than The whites are
by births and immigration combined. Five
hundred colored babies are born every
twenty-four hours He had seen some old
colored preachers hold the Bible upside down,
and all they couid do was TO shout and pound
the Bible; but he'd rather hear a man like
that preach than namby -pamby, pink paper
young man read a milk and-water essay.
Inc brethren shouted Amen"
THE Queen has received from four to six
kilograms from Darmstadt every day since
Prince Alexander of Battenberg's illness be-
gan. HIS condition is most alarming and eX-
cited the utmost anxiety, AS his constitution
has been terribly pull ed down by the lncrs-
SAINT worries of the asst year. The Queen has
b IN written and teleSraphed several times
10 The Princes mother, the Princess OF Bat
tenberg, and to his sister, the Countess En-
bach Schonberg. who was over here last
spring. Prince Alexander is at his fathers
gloomy palace, on the Wlihclmine platZ of
Darmstadt. He rushed home from Paris di-
rectly 1t became apparent that he was becOm-
ing dangerously Ill.
DURING the last twenty years various at
tempts have been made to produce a paper
barrel which would answer all the purposes
for which tho wooden barrel Is used Re-
Gently a OrO0nca0
pulp which seemed destined To sup rsede the
wooden article. Its general appearance ls
that Of the common wooden barrel thicky
vanished, while only five pieces are used in
mRKing it. IL is bound with ordinary wood
en- hoops and the head is of one piece, so con-
struc Ell that it ills INTO the barrel air-tight
and is held firmly in place by hoop without
the use OF nails. The body is seamless, and
the Interior and exterior are glazed with a
substance which renters the barrel imper-
vtous TO moisture, so that liquids of all kinds
can be transported IN IL without loss.
IN Albany, N. Y, one night blonde and
depressed drummer sat on a Delavan Hotel
sofa, looking like a barrel whose hoops are
too tight for it. Finally he found relief
thusly: II was born IN this cussed town
twentY-eight years ago. Moved out when /
was years old, and never came back again
until toni. hit, Now, d 4-year-old infant
can't be expected to retain much geography
in mis- intellect. Consequence was when
seventeen men offered to take me to the Della
van from the depot 1OF QUO. cnaftereu the
most gorgeous rig and started. He pulled me
round the corner and said was here AND
so was. l have since discovered that the
back door of the hotel Is 40 feet from the sta
ton steps by direct route. It's their trade.
suppose, but it strikes me like taking mean
advantage of fellow townsman and an In
FAINT"
BURDETTE says Of his Durlesque 'Life of
William PENN: at was q book entirely I'M
called for. There was really no reason for
making fun of a character worthy of the ad-
miration and esteem of men. 1t was fool
ish thing and wrong one, the writing of that
book. 1t did no harm, however. Nobody
read it, and Will sly In Conf1denca-and /
don't want this repeated outside the Office
that still owe the publishers IS for IndeXtng.
The original bill was 81, think, but In three
or four years enough books have been so d To
apply my royalty, 81, on the bin for indie king.
Still, am sorry ! wrote it. But THAT'S noih-
ing for me. Every day of my life am sorry
for some hing did Yesterday. So constantly
am doing peuance that live in q stats Of
chronic remorse and habItual hnir shirt. !
only hone that the day afterI die l may not
be sorry did it,"
Eff CT of Paw